Your favourite game sucks, actually

man it sucks these days being a fan of something because someone might come around and make you feel bad for enjoying it but i might as well do that to others so id get a strange sense of righteous with me and the world the world being this platform and me being this online alias that ive created

this forum is for any popular or unpopular hot take that u feel like sharing such as good game is bad or bad game is good 

this can be anything to very specific mechanics or characters or something more broad like representation or something like that

also before reading or posting on here note that SUBJECTIVITY IS IMPLIED so no "this is just ur opinion posts" because i know that AND no "this is just my opinion" posts because we all know that. I want ur cold hard opinions not ur warm soft facts

as an example ill start by saying that -ahem-

Half life 2 isn't the greatest game ever actually. 

My small list of reasons as to why:

1. the level design is dogy at parts, at the start of the game its nice and fun playing with the strengths of the combine AI but in the middle to the end of the game some areas turn into monster rooms or one stand scenarios that makes the combine look dumb

2. the "cutscenes" are kinda annoying. Half Life 2 is often praised for "not having cutscenes" and for not taking control from the player and while one of them is true the former is just an illusion. There are cutscenes and i dont mean the starting and ending one i mean in between chapters where ur stuck in a room waiting for everyone to shut the fuck up and give u what u need for u to move on. Its not that bad but it just pisses me off for some reasons 

3. Highway 17 sucks

4. i want more chapters like we dont go to ravenholm... (not just zombie chapters) 

5. half life 1 is better in most ways other then graphics

am i saying its bad? no. I had my fun with the game

am i going to give it another chance sometime in the future? yes as it felt interesting 

but as it stands right now as of 25th of July 2026 14:01 CEST i think that half life 1 is better then 2]

i also didnt include episode 1 and episode 2 in this as while i did play them they dont have the same issues 

Tears of the kingdom

Sure it's better mechanically but I was far less invested in the story (which is really just a motivator to play the game but still). 
Story didn't really make sense either lol
Yeah it's cool that they added to the first map but idk, after playing a while it lost its luster i guess.
Why do weapons still break?

vibes are immaculate like the first game though so i get it

just give me another traditional 3D Zelda dammit. 

1M GIGGLING BC I CL1CKED TH1S     EXPECT1NG U T0 BR1NG UP SUM RAND0M GAME IDC AB0UT BUT INSTEAD U BR0UGHT UP L1KE     0NE OF 2 GAMES 1 HAVE 1N MY INTERESTS SECTI0N XDDDDD

i feel the need to add to the discussion here now so ill just say that a lot of Postal fans refuse to accept the fact the game is mid at best and that running with scissors is one of the biggest sellouts out there :/ 

@Tirux I Couldn't stand DS1 Remake. Like, yeah, Isaac feels more like a person, but it really makes it... Weird, yknow? doesnt give the same feeling that when Isaac speaks in DS2, always connecting with another character.

@BrownZombie I didn't bother to play Dead Space 3, it was the first time I saw microtransactions applied in a third person shooter.

Dead Space 1 remake also has Isaac talking, but at least it still was horror oriented. DS2 felt por like action-horror.

@Omnom I did not expect to see Reverse:1999 here.

Bethesda has been watering down their RPG mechanics ever since the release of oblivion and im able to tolerate it up untill fallout 4

There are soooo many problems I have with that game

• The removal of skills removed one of the core parts of character building and the system of 10 different perks per SPECIAL stat really restricts the types of perks that can be in the game and most of the perks are just stand-ins for the skills they removed

• The world feels so devoid of settlements because Bethesda expects you to build every single town for them with the games new settlement system, meaning the game feels completely barren if you dont like engaging in that or have a character built for it.

• I really hate the voiced main character they decided to do and I also dislike the dialog wheel they added, both ruin a lot of the role-playing, the voiced protagonist by making my character react in ways I feel like they shouldnt and the dialog wheel by restricting options to always have 4 options every time meaning a lot of the time it just cuts out options that could have been nice to have or means options are redundant (and the wheel doesn't even fully tell you what youre gonna say) 

Fallout 4, Fallout 76, starfield and the fallout show have killed any hopes ive ever had for Bethesda putting out anything good after skyrim

Idk how hot this take really is but Sonic 06 was honestly really fun. Like yes the game is broken as hell and the story is hilarious but I still somehow enjoyed it a lot, I think it was the first sonic game I've ever played and completing it comes naturally to me for the most part lol

splatoon does a massive disservice to its own worldbuilding every time it has story mode. the universe is one of the best i've ever seen and then every time there's a story mode it's like "wee hee saturday morning cartoon time" and completely smooths over all the messed up stuff because it's a nintendo game and there are children playing. i want to shrivel into a tiny ball like a dead spider every time people say the character development is soooo good. it is NOT.

there is literally a race of sapient anthropomorphic fish that go into battle seasoned/salted because they're hoping that when they die (not if, WHEN) that you'll eat their corpse, yet for some reason in splatoon 3 the devs decided that instead of diving into that theme, they'd introduce... godzilla references for some reason. (they might have picked it up again for the upcoming game though which is making me upset that i don't have a switch 2)

also dj octavio is criminally understated. sure he saved the world but most of his character development is so subtle that only really observant rabid fans notice how wild he is. for instance he has a gopro camera in splatoon 3 so he can livestream his stunts to his fans. but it's a blink-and-you-miss-it detail. 

thread revive

also not my take but it falls very neatly within this forum and if u ignore the very clickbaity title i think ull find a relatively nuanced take  

@dj i havent played bioshock yet as its been in my logs for a bit but im curious what you think of infinite

revive thread

rise 

the zelda franchise as a whole is a series i should like but have never gotten into for some reason. i do not know why, but i have not enjoyed any of the zelda games i've played over the years.